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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023:4569-01 Moderate Dbus Threat

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A targeted dbus security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 has been issued to resolve an assertion failure vulnerability and improve overall system security.
An update for dbus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

For the update to take effect, all running instances of dbus-daemon and all running applications using the libdbus library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

Summary

D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.
Security Fix(es):
* dbus: dbus-daemon: assertion failure when a monitor is active and a message from the driver cannot be delivered (CVE-2023-34969)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity security patch dbus assertion failure system message

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34969 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
aarch64: dbus-daemon-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-daemon-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-debugsource-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-devel-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-libs-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-tests-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-tools-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-x11-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm dbus-x11-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: dbus-daemon-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-daemon-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-debugsource-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-devel-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-libs-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-tests-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-tools-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-x11-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm dbus-x11-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: dbus-daemon-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm dbus-daemon-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm dbus-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm dbus-debugsource-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm dbus-devel-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm dbus-libs-debuginfo-1.12.20-7.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4569-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4569
Issue date: 2023-08-08

Topic

An update for dbus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity security patch dbus assertion failure system message

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2213166 - CVE-2023-34969 dbus: dbus-daemon: assertion failure when a monitor is active and a message from the driver cannot be delivered

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